Grace T Cruz

Biographic Data

ID6759191
NAMEGrace T Cruz
GIVEN NAMESGrace T
FAMILY NAMECruz
SIGNATURECRUZ G T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Philippines System
ORCID0000-0002-8675-457X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Drivers of health inequalities across education level among older Filipinos

    Open AccessSanny D Afable, Yasuhiko Saito et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Although the socioeconomic gradients of health are widely documented, little is known about the extent and drivers of education-related inequalities in health status among older adults in the Philippines, a lower-middle income country transitioning to an ageing society. This is the first study to decompose the contribution of social determinants of health (SDH) to inequalities in health among lower- and higher-educated older Filipinos. Using nati…

  • Food insecurity and sleep deficiency among older Filipinos

    Open AccessDivine Grace C Domingo, D Domingo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Although research has shown that food insecurity may lead to sleep problems due to poor mental health, it remains unclear whether physical health mediates this relationship. We investigated whether depressive symptoms and frailty phenotypes mediated the association of food insecurity with sleep deficiency among community-dwelling older adults in the Philippines. Methods: We analysed data from the baseline survey of a longitudinal stud…

  • Development and Validation of a Social Frailty Index Among Older Adults in the Philippines

    Open AccessEdina YQ Tan, Hanzhang Xu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2025References: 2

    BackgroundSocial frailty has not been studied in the Philippines, a Southeast Asian country with distinct sociocultural characteristics.ObjectiveTo (i) develop and validate the Social Frailty Index-Philippines (SFI-Phil), using all-cause mortality (up to 4 years) as the outcome and (ii) evaluate performance of SFI-Phil across age, sex, and residence.MethodsPerforming regression analyses on baseline and 4-year follow-up data from 5153 older adults…

  • Acceptance of Love and Remarriage Among Older Adults in the Philippines

    Open AccessJu Young Kim, Hanzhang Xu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2020Cited by: 3References: 2

    Objectives: Later-life re-partnership has been linked to healthy aging, but little is known about Philippine older adults' perception of love and remarriage in older age. Methods: Using two nationally representative surveys on aging in the Philippines, we estimated the proportion of older adults reporting acceptance. Using weighted logistic regression, we assessed sociodemographic and health factors associated with acceptance as well as the relat…

  • Who cares? Provision of Care and Assistance Among Older Persons in the Philippines

    Open AccessJeofrey Bautista Abalos, Yasuhiko Saito et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2018Cited by: 5References: 2

    The Filipino family remains faithful to its filial duty toward older persons, but who provides care and the way it is provided are likely to change due to the demographic changes and values shifts that have swept the country